UK Championship Day 2 LIVE: Allen faces Page ahead of Selby v Lisowski later

He lost perfect position but recovered with a good mid-range pot and a colour and red will put the frame beyond Allen.

He was lucky to get the opportunity but Page is quickly making a dent in the frame at this visit with pots in and around the black.

Page goes in-off but it’s not the worst result as with the reds all messily covering the bottom half of the table it was not an easy pot and Allen missed – leaving Page on.

Another poor shot from Page, looking to get back to baulk he ricocheted into the jaws of the bottom left pocket and was lucky not to leave on a pot.

Not for the first time it hasn’t been successful opening the reds off the black. Allen has to play safe. Page looking for a thin contact inexplicably misses the side of the pack of reds.

Allen pots a long red to start the frame, the usual beginning in this match.

Carter won the last frame before the mid-session interval to take a two-frame lead.

Page with a fine blue cutting into the green pocket and then the pink into the bottom left corner pocket. And we are level going into the mid-session interval.

A poor shot on the brown means we play on with the three big colours on the table and the frame up for grabs.

Allen pots a long red, guiding it along the cushion into the yellow pocket and now needs the colours to take a two-frame lead into the interval.

Allen lays a snooker which Page cannot get out of.first-time around. The second time he does so and leaves it safe.

Precision potting from Allen and he leaves himself perfectly on the last red but with the rest and playing a pot hard with backspin it comes back out of the yellow pocket.

Page takes on a long blue and misses it and Allen cuts in a narrow red to give himself a chance to steal.

A fine half-century from Page but he drifts a little too far down the table after potting the brown leaving himself a tricky red to keep the break going. He gets it though – and a nice kiss off the middle near jaw – so the break goes on.

Allen misses a tough red into the right middle and now Page has a chance to make him pay.

Page inadvertently pots the pink, which was left teetering over the green pocket, meaning Allen takes the frame.

Allen leaves the pink in the jaws meaning Page is still in the frame needing just one snooker.

Page misses the red on the first occasion and on the second leaves it on for Allen who is now favourite to win the frame.

Allen pots red and black and then plays a snooker on the last remaining red.

Allen gets out of the snooker but leaves the red on for Page, but he leaves it in the jaws. They are playing tight this week.

Page pots two reds and blues and then shows good game management by leaving a snooker, which Allen fails to get out of.

A good safety from Page drew a mistake from Allen and Page now has a good opportunity to put himself in control of the frame. There remain two reds on the cushion mind.

On the first occasion Page misses the pack for a foul and on the second, nestles into them leaving a touching ball and giving Allen the chance to leave another snooker.

Allen lost position when he moved down towards the remaining reds further south on the table, but ends with a good safety behind the brown.

Allen has a bit of work to do with Page having taken the easier reds, but he has slotted two of the three reds at the baulk end of the table.

Page should have potted the black but as Alan McManus said in commentary he lost the cue ball a little to stop the shot being a certainty and it wobbled in the jaws before bouncing out.

Allen plays a long red but it bounces in the green jaws and allows Page to get on the board.

The Captain has taken an early lead on the other side of the screen. He amassed an 108 break in the opener.

A break of 56 gets Allen the frame and levels the match.

Another poor Page safety gives Allen a chance around the black spot and he should make him pay on this occasion.

A loose safety lets Allen in a second time but he fails to get on the black after a second red and has to play to baulk off the yellow.

He’s not getting the luck at the moment. He went into the pack off the black but it nestled in rather than spread the reds and he has to play safe.

Allen again starts the frame with a very good long red.

A very good red with the rest down the left hand side of the table was the key pot to get him over the line. Another pink left Allen needing three snookers and he remained in his seat.

Page is just a couple of pots from clinching the opener now.

What happened there! Page smashed the cue ball aiming for the reds around the pack and ended up hitting the blue. Allen then tried a safety which left Page a pot. So that crazy bad shot may end up helping him.

Page with a nice pot off the cushion and black to follow but there was no easy red afterwards so he plays back to baulk. A good confident start from Page.

Page just fails to get the baulk side of the blue, so is force to take the green over the pocket and play safe afterwards.

Allen starts off with a typical dead-weight long red and the cue ball just stays the right side of the brown for him to pot the green…but he leaves the ball in the jaw! Chance for Page now.

Our main focus will be the clash between Mark Allen and Jackson Page this afternoon, but we will also keep a close eye on Ali Carter and Ryan Day.

• Ali Carter v Ryan Day
• Mark Allen v Jackson Page

• Mark Selby v Jackson Page
• Si Jiahui v Wu Yize